{"id":1011,"date":"2021-09-14T11:36:40","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T09:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hodler2021.ch\/hodlers-holzfaeller\/erfolgsserie\/"},"modified":"2022-08-26T09:25:48","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T07:25:48","slug":"success","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hodler2021.ch\/en\/hodlers-holzfaeller\/success\/","title":{"rendered":"Successful series"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"dt_header-block alignfull\" style=\"background-color: #e5acbe; color: #FFFFFF;\">\n  <h2 class=\"dt_header-block__title\">The \u00abWoodcutter\u00bb-Family\n<\/h2>\n\n  <div class=\"dt_header-block__content\">\n    <p>Why are there so many <em>Woodcutters<\/em>? Apart from high earnings, there are several reasons why Hodler copied his works himself.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"in-endless-succession\">In endless succession<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Hodler painted <em>The<\/em> <em>Woodcutter<\/em> in three sizes and 18 variations. There are various reasons why the artist copied his own works. It was possible to use these so-called replicas to test a variation and further develop the motif while working on another painting. But replicas also make economic sense: they can be produced much quicker than the first version, for which the motif has to be worked out from scratch, and they can be done at any time in the studio independently of a model or weather conditions. After all, as the success increased, Hodler came under time pressure to produce; and new works could be sold in no time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video aligncenter\"><video height=\"2228\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1764 \/ 2228;\" width=\"1764\" autoplay controls src=\"https:\/\/www.hodler2021.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/erfolgsserie-3-langsamer.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-white-color has-text-color has-background is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"background-color:#bca58e\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-plain is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em><em>A Hodler work is like a stock value! Everyone is speculating! It\u2019s a fever, it\u2019s : Hodlermania!<\/em><\/em><\/p><cite>Louis Baudit, \u00abFerdinand Hodler\u00bb, in ABC, 06.\/07.1912, S. 1\u20133.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"an-easy-job-for-forgers\">An easy job for forgers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>In his enthusiastic article, Louis Baudit mentions the presentation of the \u00abfamous <em>Woodcutter<\/em>\u00bb at the Miethke Gallery in Vienna and at the same time defends the artist against that criticism that he was producing mass goods for the market. This critic emerged because increasingly Hodler was painting more extensive series of the same motif. His artist colleague Cunot Amiet wrote to Giovanni Giacometti: \u00abHe\u2019s beginning to copy himself, like a monkey.\u00bb Yet although there are almost twenty versions of it, <em>The Woodcutter<\/em> is not Hodler\u2019s most extensive series. There are no les than thirty versions of the <em><em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kunstmuseumluzern.ch\/sammlung\/sammlungskatalog-online\/?werke-detail=9570\" target=\"_blank\">Stockhornkette mit Thunersee<\/a><\/em><\/em> (<em>Lake Thun with Stockhorn Mountain Chain<\/em>).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>Both the high prices\u2014Hodler was asking 15,000 francs for a <em>Woodcutter<\/em> in 1911\u2014and the multi-part series made it attractive and easy to smuggle fakes onto the art market. As early as 1912 Ferdinand Hodler had to testify as a witness in a trial about a fake <em>Woodcutter<\/em>. The many variations also led to mistakes, but in no way did they impede the success of <em>TheWoodcutter<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In endless succession Hodler painted The Woodcutter in three sizes and 18 variations. There are various reasons why the artist copied his own works. It was possible to use these so-called replicas to test a variation and further develop the motif while working on another painting. 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